Steve, the campaign begins

[Saint in Paradise]

Well looks like your fears were well founded Steve

 

 

 

Phil Gartside has been at Bolton for 20 years

Bolton chairman Phil Gartside has called for a two-division Premier League to increase competition.

 

"It would even everything out and make it more competitive", he added.

 

Gartside, one of longest-serving chairmen in the top flight, believes in addition to making the Premier League - which currently has 20 teams - more competitive, the changes would solve a number of other problems.

 

"You could have 36 Premier League clubs split into 18 and 18 and that would also solve the problems of the winter break and supporting the England team," he said.

 

"We have already got to the situation where the three clubs that go down from the Premier League are usually the three that come up, although a couple of others might sneak in.

 

Phil Gartside

"I don't have the answers but it is certainly time for a debate - perhaps even on not having relegation from a second division of the Premier League."

 

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/eng_prem/7687273.stm

 

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[Saint Martini]

LOL

 

Funny how they changed it in Holland from not having relegation from div2 to having the possibilty of relegation and (some within) the PL want to do the opposite (both claiming its for the good of the game).

[stevegrant]

Who'd have thought it, chairman of a club likely to be fighting relegation every season in "suggestion of stopping relegation from cash cow league" shocker...